Shastracaura, Śāstracaura, Shastra-caura: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śāstracaura can be transliterated into English as Sastracaura or Shastracaura, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shastrachaura.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚāstracaura (शास्त्रचौर):—m. der auf eine unrechtmässige Weise in den Besitz einer Lehre u. s. w. gelangt [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa S. 659,] [Śloka 10.]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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